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Welcome to the Global Currencies Database

Our goal is to deepen the understanding of today’s international monetary system through the lens of history’s long shadow

The Chiṭu-Eichengreen-Mehl Global Currencies Database (CEMGCD) brings together in one place multiple datasets on the history of the international monetary system collected over many years from a variety of sources on the currency composition of global foreign reserves, debt and oil markets.

We provide free open access to the data behind our book How Global Currencies Work (Princeton University Press), available also in Chinese, Hungarian and Spanish.

We also make available additional datasets, compiled with other co-authors, on financial sanctions, global foreign reserves, invoicing of international trade and exchange rates.

Some of these datasets will be updated on a regular basis. Others will be added over time.

The logo image courtesy of Shutterstock and Princeton University Press.